Shutter Speeds

 Within this lesson I learned a lot about how camera shutter speeds work. I learned that our speeds can range from 1/4000 of a second to 30 seconds and that quick/short shutter speeds are used to freeze frame an image and that long/slow shutter speeds are used in dark places to allow light to be taken in and if not enough light is taken in motion blur can be captured. In this first image I used a 1/40 speed and luckily enough light was taken in for the camera to capture the water in the image.

 In this second image I used a two second shutter speed to capture the light from the torch moving and I learned this technique would only work in virtually pitch black areas which was hard to find but this is one of the good images I managed to capture in a darkened room. I learned also two seconds is almost the minimal speed in which this type of image would work due to the darkness and the camera having to take in such little light.

 This is a dark image and shows me what I could improve on as I went for a freeze frame image but in a dark area the camera was not able to absorb enough light to produce a light image of my subject so I knew I had to find a new area for a freeze frame image.

 Once I had learnt I needed more light and moved to a lighter area I was able to take a freeze frame image of my subject with ease. These next two images were taken right after each other as I used the 1/250 seconds shutter speed to capture the images quickly as my subject walked across the frame I was able to show him seemingly stood still however they were walking across the frame and this is something I learned that a 1/250 speed could be used to capture somebody walking however if my subject was running I would of had to switch to a 1/500 speed.